Martin Kreiswirth challenges the accepted notion that "The Sound
and the Fury," Faulkner's fourth and possibly finest novel,
represented an unprecedented turning point in the writer's literary
career, a quantum leap in his imaginative development. He argues
that Faulkner's earlier work, both published and unpublished, not
only distinctly prefigured techniques, narrative strategies, and
creative procedures used in the writing of his fourth novel, but
also provided him with materials and methods to which he could
return.
Viewed in the context of his literary development, the author
says, the writing of "The Sound and the Fury" constituted for
Faulkner not so much a mysterious leap as a moment of initiation;
it marks that crucial point in his career at which he revisited his
past, saw it anew, and reworked it into his future.
Focusing his attention on the works that preceded "The Sound and
the Fury"--and specifically on the strategies and conventions that
informed those works--Kreiswirth reassesses Faulkner's imaginative
growth and offers new insights into the place and significance of
"The Sound and the Fury" itself.
He provides detailed analyses of such works as the New Orleans
short fiction, the abandoned novel "Elmer," "Mosquitoes," "Flags in
the Dust," and particularly Faulkner's neglected first novel,
"Soldier's Pay." These texts are reexamined not only as
anticipations of later developments but as literary achievements in
their own right.
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